Chapter 56. Jake and I

Leah’s POV

Again, this was the feeling that I have been searching for since I was kidnapped. 

And if I was being honest and real with myself, maybe since my dad died. I think since he died, there has been this void that I just could not fill no matter how hard that I tried. 

I think when he died, I was left with a sadness that never left; a sadness that I made my friend. And not because I wanted to, but because since it did not want to leave, I had no real choice but to be its friend. 

The relationship between my mom and I becoming better helped, but it was just a bandage to an even deeper wound. It only brought some relief, but it did not heal me. 

But right now, I strangely feel healed. 

I felt like everything was right in the world again. Or maybe it was just because my brain was being flooded with dopamine and all my problems had vanished and had just seemed very comical and not serious. 

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